Carmen Jones (1954)

Directed by

Otto Preminger

Genre

drama film, musical film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 96 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A passionate and fiery woman named Carmen Jones disrupts the life of a soldier named Joe. Their intense romance leads to jealousy and a tragic confrontation.

passionateintensedramaticromanticoperaticsweepingtragicvisceral1950s

What happens

Carmen Jones is a 1954 American musical film featuring an African-American cast starring Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, and Pearl Bailey and produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Harry Kleiner is based on the lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II, from the 1943 stage musical of the same name, set to the music of Georges Bizet's 1875 opera Carmen. The opera was an adaptation of the 1845 Prosper Mérimée novella Carmen by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Carmen Jones was a CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color motion picture that had begun shooting within the first 12 months of Twentieth Century Fox's venture in 1953 to the widescreen format as its main production mode. Carmen Jones was released in October 1954, exactly one year and one month after Fox's first CinemaScope venture, the Biblical epic The Robe, had opened in theatres. The film received two Academy Awards nominations, including Best Actress for Dandrige, making her the first black nominee in that category. In 1992, Carmen Jones was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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